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Bill Horne, CEO of Laser Spine Institute, discusses how a 2004 surgery prompted him, along with his physician, James St. Louis, DO, to launch Laser Spine Institute. LSI marked its fifth anniversary in March and has grown dramatically since the…

Florence, S.C.-based Paincare Associates, whose model is now being used at five pain clinic locations, recently advertised its franchise opportunities in the Wall Street Journal.

About 100 to 200 Texas physicians each year are ending all involvement with Medicare, up from "less than a handful" per year in 2007, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.

Democrats in Congress are losing interest in several healthcare bills meant to follow up on the reform law, as members of both chambers face challenging fall election campaigns, according to a report by the Hill.

Beth A. Johnson is the vice president of clinical systems for Blue Chip Surgical Partners.

When most healthcare providers refer to patient-reported outcomes, they think of patient satisfaction scores and reports of complications following surgery. However, these two metrics alone may not be enough for healthcare providers as they face challenges set up by the…

Alice Coombs, MD, of Sharon, Mass., an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at South Shore Hospital, has been named as president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, according to a report in The Boston Herald.

The American Medical Association and a separate coalition of 11 medical societies have thrown their support behind the Healthcare Truth and Transparency Act of 2010, introduced by Representatives John Sullivan (R-Okla.) and David Scott (D-Ga.).

Researchers from the University of Vienna in Austria found that single-use paraffin earplugs were successful in reducing intraoperative awareness recall in patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgery, according to an article in Minerva Anesthesiologica.

New provisions to crack down on fraud could help the federal government surpass the $2.9 billion in Medicare and Medicaid overpayments recovered last year, a 29 percent increase from the year before, according to a release from HHS.